War

At the border, there were green and tan
Army men fighting one another.
Then, the kings made a confederacy.
Then, the war erupted, and a city's
Skyscraper was burst from the bombs;
Its glass exploding in front of the blue
Electric of the Nuclear Bomb.
I began running--why not succumb to death?--
And upon a swingset, across the stream
Were a family,---grandma, toddler, and mother---
Their dead bodies hung limp on the swings.